By Shapiro                                            S.B. No. 1195
         Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1195:
         By Alexander                                      C.S.S.B. No. 1195
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to retainage on certain highway contracts.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 223.010, Transportation Code, is amended
 1-5     by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (h) to read as
 1-6     follows:
 1-7           (a)  Five percent of the contract price shall be retained
 1-8     until the entire improvement has been completed and accepted except
 1-9     as provided in Subsection (h).
1-10           (h)  Four percent of the contract price shall be retained
1-11     until the entire improvement has been completed and accepted on any
1-12     contract that includes the use of recycled materials.
1-13           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.